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After being inaccessible for about four hours on Wednesday, the website of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, one of the most innovative banks in Nigeria experienced yet another outage on Friday afternoon. According to a tip-off notifying TechLoy, the website was down since early Friday afternoon, and when we checked at about 2:35pm (GMT +1), we noticed…

The website of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, one of the most innovative banks in Nigeria experienced an outage on Wednesday due to a database connection error suggesting a MySQL issue. [See image below] As at 1:30pm (GMT +1) when this post was being written, the website was inaccessible, but sources told TechLoy that the website has been…

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, one of the most innovative banks in Nigeria, which has been a pioneer in the brand use of social media in Nigeria has become the first commercial brand and bank in Nigeria to reach 1 million fans on Facebook. Techloy gathered that the company’s Facebook page grew from 199,000 fans in February…

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank), one of the most innovative banks in Nigeria, is looking to leverage on social platforms to allow its customers to make transactions and engage in related financial services.

We have previously established that the concept of mobile money is not strange to Nigerians…so why is it taking this long to deliver this product in a standard format by the corporate stakeholders involved?

What does the most popular financial brand in the country do when they want to announce their next big media initiative? Call the NTA? Send for AIT? Nah. They call together a bunch of young bloggers and treat them to drinks and fingerfood at a swanky Lagos restaurant.

For some time now, GTBank’s electronic email system has been compromised and under attack by Phishing attempts and this has resulted in a deluge of spam emails being sent to both the bank’s customers and non-customers.

Today, the website of GTBank, one of the leading banks in Nigeria witnessed an unusual domain URL redirect to a domain parking page of a website called mylife12.tk via the URL http://searchmagnified.com

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, one of the leading banks in Nigeria has launched MasterCard debit cards in its Ghana subsidiary, GTBank (Ghana) Ltd. With this launch, the bank has rolled out a range of MasterCard products and services including card issuance and ATM activation, the bank said in a statement. GTBank’s MasterCard is expected to offer…

We earlier reported today that GTBank’s electronic channel services experienced an outage following a fire incident at one of its processing centres in Lagos. The outage which lasted over 6 hours today made it impossble for customers of the bank to perform any transactions via ATM, the Internet or Point of Sale terminals.

Guaranty Trust Bank PLC, one of Nigeria’s leading and innovative banks today experienced a fire incident at one of its processing centres in Lagos, Nigeria. As a result, the bank’s electronic channels (ATMs, Internet Banking and POS) are temporarily unavailable, so customers would not be able to perform any transactions via ATM, the Internet or Point of Sale terminals.

MTN Nigeria has announced that it would be launching a mobile money service in August 2011, thereby leveraging on its over 40 million users, reports ITNewsAfrica. At this stage, it is still uncertain whether MTN Nigeria has received mobile money license from the Central Bank of Nigeria, but we can confirm that the service will…

“Welcome to the official twitter page for Fola Adeola. The next Vice President of our country Nigeria”. Those were the words that heralded what appears to be the official twitter account of Fola Adeola, the Vice President aspirant under the ACN party of the 2011 Nigerian elections. In case you don’t know, Fola Adeola is…

GTBank is one of Nigeria’s most dynamic and innovative banks. They’re actively using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. A recent TV commercial ad shows how they continually weave new themes into life’s narratives, remembering successes past and re-visioning the future. The ad is about the innate quality of human beings to…

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